To legalize or not to legalize the trading of rhino horns to save the black rhino, white rhino from extinction in South Africa?

Despite the huge lobby to legalize rhino horn trade as a means to curb the poaching of endangered rhino and stop the wildlife trafficking and illegal trade, we at NIKELA remain opposed.

We are not wildlife conservationists, we do not own rhino, and we have no financial stake in whether rhino horn is traded or not. As citizens of our planet, as humans who care for wildlife and the protection of habitats and ecosystems we are fully committed to do all we can to stop the poaching and all other activities that compromise the preservation of wildlife and its environment....

By Steve Galster This week’s public auction of John Hume’s stockpiled rhino horn in South Africa may look like a well-intentioned, smart move to relieve pressure on endangered wild rhinos by flooding the market with horns, while generating funding to protect remaining animals from poachers. But in reality, this week’s controversial sale puts rhinos around …

This article is about rhino poaching in Africa. With the recent problem, animal poaching, happening in Africa, Kenya also had faced the same problem. EarthWatch Institute estimate that about 540 rhinos are left in Kenya from what used to be 20,000 rhinos in 1970. This extensive rhino poaching happened over the 20 years. On March 14, there was in incidence where someone smuggled Sh600 million worth of rhino horns from Kenya. The main reason of the poaching is because of Asia. Some parts of Asia thinks rhino horn is sacred. They think it is a medicine to cure cancer and other diseases. Other parts of Asia also classifies their status symbol by the amount of rhino horns they have. This caused many poachers to smuggle horns to sell it in the black market in Asia. Africa had been mainly solving this problem through technology. They used drones and robots to find and arrest the poachers. Unlike many parts of Africa, Kenya doesn’t allow drones to be flown. The limit to technology Kenya have, causes more problems when it comes to protecting the wild.

This article helps me understand that some parts of Africa is facing problems beyond poaching. They have limit access to technology and can’t find poachers easily. The problem is hard to fix since drone is the main technology people use to catch off poachers. As time goes, this may cause our ecosystem to be ruined and may affect the world as a whole. I think it is a big problem and it needs to be fixed. They government should at least let drone that catches poachers to be flown. I think the world should actually start to acknowledge the poaching and smuggling that happened over last 20 years. We should try to stop it since it only doesn’t affect Africa, but our world, earth, as a whole.

This article is about rhino poaching. In March 14, 2017, 2 women was caught seizing 21 rhino horns into Thailand. The Thai police caught this scene while the luggage was subjected to a random check. They also found 300k of elephant ivory with the horn, both of which is estimated to be worth. $5m. The Thai official also indicates that the incidence of the poaching probably includes several more people. These animals were believed to be killed in south Africa and brought back to Cambodia and Vietnam where these two women collected it from. This is a problem since an estimation of 21,000 rhino were poached and killed since the 20th century. Although Asian airline and airports shows anti-smuggling efforts, Asia seems to be the main place poachers illegally trades rhino horns.

This article helps me understand about African recent issues. Recently in Africa, there had been many news articles about animal poaching. These news seem to not stop, therefore leading a big problem to Africa. Africa need these animals for tourist attraction, but with the poachers and killers, African economy may go down, causing poverty throughout the country. There had been news about planning to stop animal poaching through technology, but those haven’t shown a success yet. After reading this article, it made me rethink about poaching. Since there had been many articles about poaching so lately, I think animal poaching could almost be a global problem. With that many people poaching everyday, the mass killing may interrupt our ecosystem. This could, overtime, lead to global extinction and I hope the airline and the government could take this seriously and try to prevent animal poaching in Africa.

The Director of Compliance Enforcement at the so-called Green Scorpions, Div De Villiers, said that collaboration between different entities including South African Police Service and the Public have helped keep the numbers low in the province.

"This number would have been far higher had it not been for the dedicated men and women who have walked patrols, sat in observation posts, worked undercover within organised crime syndicates, analysed data, compiled dockets, effected arrests, prosecuted poachers, distributed information pamphlets, raised funds, translocated rhino and showed their support for one of Africa's iconic species," he said.

"The collective efforts of these heroic Eastern Cape people have ensured that rhino still walk in the grassland, savannah and bushveld of the province," De Villiers added.

While four vets perform chest compressions on the white rhino orphan Meha in South Africa, another blows into her nose and after several desperate minutes, she starts breathing independently.
Via Trevor TQ Harvey

The Fundimvelo Thula Thula Rhino Orphanage, which has rescued so many orphaned rhino… but which experienced a brutal poaching attack in February, has made the heartbreaking decision to close down. In a statement today, Thula Thula said the following: The late night attack had resulted in an assault on staff and the tragic loss of two …

Senators from Minnesota, Wisconsin and Wyoming yesterday introduced the “War on Wolves Act,” a companion bill to legislation introduced last week in the House that would strip federal protections from wolves and allow trophy hunting and trapping of the species in four states.

A rhinoceros at a zoo near Paris was shot three times in the head on Monday night by poachers who then cut off its horn with a chainsaw. The four-year-old rhinoceros, named Vince, was found dead by keepers at Thoiry Zoo, to the west of the French capital.

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